shock, surprise, disapproval When Chuck and Di separated it caused some raised eyebrows.
born and raised
Idiom(s): born and raised AND born and bred
Theme: CHILDHOOD
born and nurtured through childhood, usually in a specific place. (Fixed order.) • She was born and raised in a small town in western Montana. • Freddy was born and bred on a farm and had no love for city life.
cause raised eyebrows
cause raised eyebrows Also, raise eyebrows. Cause surprise or disapproval, as in At school his purple hair usually causes raised eyebrows. This transfer of a physical act (raising one's eyebrows) to the feelings it may express took place in the early 1900s. Lytton Strachey used the term in The Eminent Victorians (1918): “The most steady-going churchman hardly raises an eyebrow at it now.”
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